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📖 8th Grade · ELAW.8.1aUnit 4: Argument writing

Claims and opposing claims

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🎯 Objective: Students distinguish their claim from opposing claims.

Lesson outline

  1. Debate.
  2. Write.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: claim and counter.

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

W.8.1a

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 8 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Write arguments that distinguish claims from opposing claims with logical reasoning and evidence

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 8th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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  2. Logical reasoning
  3. Cohesion and style
  4. Speech delivery

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